The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and one of the best-known speeches in American history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to others' presentations that day, came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose. In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis, with a new birth of freedom that would bring true equality to all of its citizens. Lincoln also redefined the Civil War as a struggle not just for the Union, but also for the principle of human equality.
Beginning with the now-iconic phrase Four score and seven years ago—referring to the signing of the Declaration of Independence eighty-seven years earlier—Lincoln invoked the United States' founding principles as set forth in that document, then reminded his listeners of the peril to those principles posed by the Civil War then in progress. He extolled the sacrifices of those who died at Gettysburg in defense of those principles, and exhorted his listeners to continue the struggle for survival of the nation's representative democracy as a beacon to the world—urging resolve
that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Despite the speech's prominent place in the history and popular culture of the United States, the exact wording and location of the speech are disputed. The five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand differ in a number of details, and also differ from contemporary newspaper reprints of the speech. Modern scholarship locates the speakers' platform 40 yards (or more) away from the Traditional Site within Soldiers' National Cemetery at the Soldiers' National Monument and entirely within private, adjacent Evergreen Cemetery.
Following the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1–3, 1863, reburial of Union soldiers from the Gettysburg Battlefield graves began on October 17. David Wills, of the committee for the November 19 Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, invited President Lincoln: It is the desire that, after the Oration, you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks. Lincoln's address followed the oration by Edward Everett, who subsequently included a copy of the Gettysburg Address in his 1864 book about the event (Address of the Hon. Edward Everett At the Consecration of the National Cemetery At Gettysburg, 19th November 1863, with the Dedicatory Speech of President Lincoln, and the Other Exercises of the Occasion; Accompanied by An Account of the Origin of the Undertaking and of the Arrangement of the Cemetery Grounds, and by a Map of the Battle-field and a Plan of the Cemetery).
During the train trip from Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg on November 18, Lincoln remarked to John Hay that he felt weak. On the morning of November 19, Lincoln mentioned to John Nicolay that he was dizzy. In the railroad car the President rode with his secretary, John G. Nicolay, his assistant secretary, John Hay, the three members of his Cabinet who accompanied him, William Seward, John Usher and Montgomery Blair, several foreign officials and others. Hay noted that during the speech Lincoln's face had 'a ghastly color' and that he was 'sad, mournful, almost haggard.' After the speech, when Lincoln boarded the 6:30 pm train for Washington, D.C., he was feverish and weak, with a severe headache. A protracted illness followed, which included a vesicular rash and was diagnosed as a mild case of smallpox. It thus seems highly likely that Lincoln was in the prodromal period of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg address.
Program and Everett's Gettysburg Oration
by Wills and his committee included:
Music, by Birgfeld's Band (Homage d'uns Heros by Adolph Birgfeld)
Prayer, by Reverend T. H. Stockton, D.D.
Music, by the Marine Band (Old Hundred), directed by Francis Scala
Oration, by Hon. Edward Everett (The Battles of Gettysburg)
Music, Hymn (Consecration Chant) by B. B. French, Esq., music by Wilson G Horner, sung by Baltimore Glee Club
Dedicatory Remarks, by the President of the United States
Dirge (Oh! It is Great for Our Country to Die, words by James G. Percival, music by Alfred Delaney), sung by Choir selected for the occasion
Benediction, by Reverend H. L. Baugher, D.D.
The Site of the Gettysburg Address
This is the site on Cemetery Hill that claims to be the actual location where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. However, after new photo analysis many historians believe that the actual address was given some 30 yards behind this sight marked by an American flag. Nevertheless, this is the general location of the address.
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President Abraham Lincoln visited Gettysburg in November 1863, to help dedicate the new Gettysburg National Cemetery and to deliver what has become known as the Gettysburg Address. His visit lasted a short 24 hours, but his impact is still felt and can be seen throughout the town today. Join Paige as she explores all things Lincoln in Gettysburg!
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At the end of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, more than 51,000 Confederate and Union soldiers were wounded, missing, or dead. Many of those who died were laid in makeshift graves along the battlefield. Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin commissioned David Wills, an attorney, to purchase land for a proper burial site for the deceased Union soldiers. Wills acquired 17 acres for the cemetery, which was planned and designed by landscape architect William Saunders.
The cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863. The main speaker for the event was Edward Everett, one of the nation’s foremost orators. President Lincoln was also invited to speak “as Chief Executive of the nation, formally [to] set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks.” At the ceremony, Everett spoke for more than 2 hours; Lincoln spoke for 2 minutes.
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The reader is Michael Scherer.
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This is where Lincoln stayed the night before his famous Gettysburg Address.
President Abraham Lincoln's Speech At Gettysburg = William F. Hooley Gettysburg Address 1898 record
Lincoln's Speech at Gettysburg on Berliner disc #6012, recorded September 21, 1898.
The speaker here, William F. Hooley, makes a few small changes to the famous text and omits a line or two.
Five manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address exist. Two are in the Library of Congress. Another is held by the Illinois State Historical Library at Springfield.
A fourth copy is at Cornell University. A fifth is in the Lincoln Room of the White House.
Below is the version known as the Nicolay Copy. The Nicolay Copy is often called the first draft since it seems to be the earliest surviving copy.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow, this ground -- The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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BACKGROUND INFO: The battle at Gettysburg was fought over three days, July 1-3, 1863. It was fought on Northern ground--in Pennsylvania--whereas most Civil War battles were fought in the South. After three days, the North won since Southern troops returned to the South.
If the South had won, Southern armies would have done much damage in Northern states to pressure Lincoln to allow the South to leave the Union.
Lincoln delivered his speech on November 19 at the dedication of a Gettysburg memorial cemetery. Not all corpses had been buried yet--many Confederate skeletons lay unburied. The speech has been popular since Lincoln gave it though historians point to it as Lincoln's second Inaugural Address as greatest speech.
The last line--“government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth”--is a reminder of what why Lincoln thought the war was worth fighting. The war was not waged to free slaves. The war was waged for the sake of democracy. Lincoln knew that if the South had left the Union, then dictatorships would replace democracy in North America.
Some questions for discussion:
1) What is Lincoln's purpose when he puts down his own speech? He says, The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here... Why did he include this?
2) Is Lincoln guilty of sexism? He opens this way: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation...dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Is this sexist language. If yes, is it offensive?
3) Let's say you must remove one sentence. Which one sentence can be removed without doing damage to the speech? That may be a way of saying you must find the least important sentence of the speech. After you identify it, answer this: should Lincoln have removed it?
4) In the speech, is Lincoln trying harder to make the audience think or to make the audience feel?
5) Rewrite the Gettysburg Address so you have lyrics for a gangsta rap hit but keep the language clean, PG-17.
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The burials were far from complete when the Gettysburg National Cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863. The honorable Edward Everett was committed to deliver the keynote address while President Lincoln was invited to give a few appropriate remarks for the occasion. The president accepted the invitation, knowing full well that his presence would provide his political foes with plenty of fodder though he was more concerned with the human cost of the bloody war and the anxiety of the war weary northern people, anxious as to what course would then be followed.
Hotels and lodgings in and around Gettysburg were filled to capacity the day before the dedication. Under a gloomy sky, the president arrived in Gettysburg on a special train from Washington and was greeted by a throng of well wishers. Escorted to the home of attorney David Wills on the town square, Lincoln spoke briefly to the crowd and soon after retreated to a second story bedroom where he worked to complete the second half of his address begun while still in Washington. The Wills home was soon filled to capacity with dignitaries and prominent citizens. Every bedroom was taken by the time Governor Curtin arrived, so he was resigned to get a few hours of sleep on a living room sofa.
Morning dawned bright and clear on November 19, disturbed only by the booming of signal cannon from Cemetery Hill. The processional began at 10 o'clock, the participants marching south on Baltimore Street to the cemetery grounds where a special platform had been constructed at the edge of the new cemetery. The president rode a horse in the procession, followed by dignitaries in carriages, military bands and soldiers in their finest dress uniforms. Arriving at the cemetery, the officials were welcomed by a massive crowd of over 10,000 people, pressed tightly around the speaker's platform and ready to hear patriotic hymns and Mr. Everett's address. After a brief delay, Everett was introduced and looked over the hushed crowd. His voice filled with emotion, he recalled the history of the locale and compared the honoring of deceased Union sons to the funerals held for heroes of ancient Greece. The elderly speaker gave a brief history of the great battle, the country's close relationship with current affairs in Europe, and his view on the eventual outcome of the war. Nearly exhausted after two hours of speaking, he closed with a strong sentiment for once again raising the flag of the Union over southern capitols.
There was a brief musical interlude. The president rose and faced the crowd, now pressed close to the front of the platform. He spoke steadily for two minutes and then returned to his chair, accompanied by polite applause.
Many listeners were stunned. The speech was so short and many near the back of the crowd had not heard a word of it. Yet, what they did hear was poignant. The president spoke of the honored dead who gave the last full measure of devotion to the nation, and how the memory of that devotion should inspire the northern people to support the Union cause, a devotion that would result in a nation that few could actually comprehend- one with a new birth of freedom with a government run by the governed- the people of the United States.
The ceremony ended with a prayer and music. The president attended a church service in Gettysburg before leaving on his special train for Washington and a return to the business of what seemed to be an endless war. While Democratic newspapers ridiculed the president's speech, others hailed it for its simplicity. Lincoln and some of his closest aides doubted the effectiveness of the speech while others found the remarks to be inspirational. Perhaps the kindest compliment came from Edward Everett who wrote the president: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
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Gettysburg RR Station & G&H Railroad Depot, Gettysburg, PA
Today I saw the Two Railroad Stations in Gettysburg PA. I went to film them, and saw Tank cars, etc.
Gettysburg Railroad Station on Carlisle Street was, Built in the 1850s, for trains. It was used during the Civil War, for soldiers. Plus President Abraham Lincoln stopped here to deliver the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
The Other station down Railroad St. on North Washington street, was Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad Depot.
The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad Depot was Built in 1884 for the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad Company. In the 1970s to the 1990s the Railroad Depot was used for the now Defunct, Gettysburg Scenic Railroad. It was used for Steam Locomotive's, Which the railroad once had 3 Steam Locomotive's operating
- Missisippian 76 Built 1920.
- Huntington and Broad Top 38 Built 1927.
- Canadian Pacific 1278 Built 1948.
They were used on the railroad til the 1990s, except for No.38 was used through the 80s. Now at the Everett Railroad of Holidaysburg PA, awaiting Restoration.
No.76 was used through the 1990s, which she was poorly managed on the railroad, she is now Stored and Also awaiting Restoration, at the Michigan State Trust for railway Preservation.
Canadian Pacific 1278 was used until the end of Steam used on the railroad, which ended very Sad. On June 16, 1995 1278 suffered a Crown Sheet Fail Explosion, that sadly resulted in injuring the Engineer and Both Firemen were Given 3 degree Burns. That was the end of Steam in the Gettysburg RR. CP 1278 is now Stored at the Newer Age Of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio. The Locomotive's were Poorly Managed and taken care of, resulted of that Horrific Accident.
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In this live stream we visit Sachs Bridge in Gettysburg and some of the Battlefield as well. Come along as we drive some of these haunted and historical locations in Gettysburg.
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During the American Civil War, both the Union and Confederate Armies used the bridge in the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath. It is reportedly known to be severely haunted as a result.
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Hotel Wyndham Gettysburg in Gettysburg Pennsylvania - USA Bewertung und Erfahrungen
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Gettysburg Dedication Day Ceremony a Naturalization Ceremony & remarks from Steven Spielberg
This ceremony was held in Gettysburg PA on November 19th, 2012.
Since 1938, the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania has been commemorating the anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with their Dedication Day program. November 19th was officially designated as Dedication Day by a Joint Resolution of Congress on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address in 1946. In recent years, the National Park Service and the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College have joined with the Lincoln Fellowship in sponsoring the ceremonies.
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Union General John Robinson's troops fought a stubborn and bloody battle outside of Gettysburg on July 1st, 1863. Join Gettysburg National Military Park Ranger John Hoptak as he explores the story of Robinson's division and their tenacious stand on Oak Ridge at Gettysburg.